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Friday 26 July 2013

THE FLOWS OF TRADITION

“Corporation between people with different backgrounds can cost trouble. The sharing can be misunderstood and you may insult a tradition due to the prospect of the coexisting borders by globalisation.” 


(Robert Veilis, 2013) 

“Due to this risk, people intent to find solutions, which respects the traditions of cultures and the conviction of different topics in nation states,” Robert told me. He whereas to the United Nations (UN) that relates to the fifth of Merrill and Fischer’s (1970: 126) areas: 'intergovernmental and financial international communication'(elucidates Rantanen, 2005:2).

Robert is my farther. He has travelled around the World when he was a kid, but also due to his job as a grownup in the UN.

The biggest change due to globalization in his life is the cultural and physical flows. These flows costed a lot of lives in the war of the Baltic; the Baltic population suddenly realized the cultural difference between one another and got scared without a leader to unite them. Rapidly the urge to patriotism and racism was dominant and UN went in, trying to restore peace.

My father’s believe in the ideology of human rights, made him a part of an intercultural communication (Asante and Gudykunst 1989: 9). Due to globalization and therefore the regionalization, he made a difference in many people’s lives, which is why the said flows are important to him. Today the many refugees remind him of his history.

His life is clearly influenced by the relations between national governments and international organisations, and how local happenings influents many people miles away - which confirms Giddens’ definition of globalization in 1990: ”… as the intensification of world-wide social relations, which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice-versa” (1990: 64). I was surprised my farther did not mention the media, as this is how the UN and he were informed.


I guess globalization changes people’s lives wile blurring the nation state. In this case UN acted as the good example – though my farther is reminded of the bad ones every day.






Photo: Sarah Veilis
ROBERT VEILIS
(Photo by S. Veilis)



Bib:

Giddens, A 1990, `The Consequences of Modernity´Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

Rantanen, T 2005, ‘Theorizing media globalization’, The media and globalization, Sage, London 

Thursday 18 July 2013

IS GLOBALISATION A THREAT TO...?

YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ THE BLOG THAT MIXES
THE NEW, INTERNATIONAL WORLD WITH THE OLD
TRADITIONS, AS GRANNY USED TO DO THEM.
  



IS GLOBALISATION PUSHING
GRANNY OVER THE EDGE? 




Before anyone gets their fingers typing, let me just present myself: 


I am a female student at Deakin Uni, Australia.                           
    
My body was brought to life in Denmark
(a little dot in Europe) in '89.   


I have a background in the Danish Royal Air Force                     


Atheism is my "belief", though I like the thought of being married and Christmas...
 


I find different cosines very interesting.                                                    
I love classic styles and nearly all my
clothes are secondhand.


I am wondering if this world's traditions are about to be forgotten.      



                           
            

This blog will hopefully give us an idea of the importance of peoples traditions in their countries. In Denmark traditions and the feeling of being proud of your country is decreasing. According to blogger Michael Stolze (2011) patriotism is close to nonexistent in the Danish youth, due to the smaller World. 

The support for the military and the interests in local voting is on it's way out, because of the increasing urge for the metropolitan and the anonymous life, above the nationalism. I wonder if the situation is similar in other countries all over the world? Is this the outcome of glabalisation?